[Soviet Kultura]

The file contains a report written by Paul Anderson about the life under Soviet occupation. Different typs of reports can be seen, like about Alexandra Orme, an Hungarian authoress whose book 'Between Xmas and Easter' gave an undisterted, humoureus and honest account of life in the Sovite Union, so Anderson Argues. In her book she is speaking for example about a young Red Army recruit who believes that Cultura is a Soviet monopoly, no one else has it. But in the Soviet Union Cultura does not mean what we mean by culture or civilisation. It is largely a synonym of the arts, chiefly the stage and literature. But no form of art or creative work has been allowed in the Soviet Unit, most of the writers, poets and dramatists were condemned to silence by party degree. So what is cultura? All Soviet art, if it still deserve that name, has deteriorated into crude party propaganda, slavishly echoing the party line.